Will Wright to leave Electronic Arts

Will Wright, the video game designer behind such hits as "The Sims" and "Spore," is leaving game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. after 12 years.

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'Spore' turns evolution into an adventure

Will Wright is one of just a handful of celebrities in the world of computer game design. Like his contemporaries Shigeru Miyamoto (the Mario series) and Sid Meier ("Civilization"), he has a level of prestige similar to, say, Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese in Hollywood.

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'Spore' designer spills on explicit creatures

Will Wright is not offended by the explicit monsters some folks have created using his evolution simulator, no matter which private parts they may resemble. In fact, Wright said he's been impressed with the indecent beasts spawned by a slimmed-down edition of "Spore," his much-anticipated but difficult-to-describe game.

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Why does a blockbuster video game that embraces biological evolution resemble intelligent design?

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Will Wright is one of the most influential game designers in the history of the biz. So what does the maker of "Spore" and "The Sims" like to play when he's not busy creating new games?

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David and Goliath: Gamers Strike Back

So unless you have been living in cave for the past few years you know that Will Wright's long-awaited would-be magnum opus, Spore, was released yesterday.

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Spore, after more than 10 years of development time, is finally available for the PC and Mac. The game comes from the mind of the talented Will Wright, the man who gave us The Sims and the original SimCity titles.

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With Spore, Will Wright intends to make you an Intergalactic Galactic ruler who begins life as a bottom-feeding primordial soup dweller.

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There's a strong case to be made that Maxis excels at making software toys rather than games. And there's a not so insignificant difference there, because a toy is something that you tinker with, whereas a game is something with a narrative, goals, or a way to win.

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After more than three years of anticipation, Spore is almost finished.

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This past holiday (I've been bugging him since November about it) my good friend Don Hopkins got a lot of work done on the finishing touches on releasing the original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public Library (GPL).

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., November 15, 2007 – The X PRIZE Foundation announced today two new board members: Arianna Huffington and Will Wright.

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Electronic Arts will donate the original SimCity city-building game to each computer in the non-profit One Laptop Per Child humanitarian initiative, which designs, manufactures and distributes inexpensive laptops to children around the world with the goal of giving every child in …

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We're doing Spore on the Wii, and we did MySims. It takes signifcant re-thinking to work out how you're going to do it. PS3 and Xbox 360 are similar enough that you can basically use the same system for both.

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One of the video games industry's most respected figures has called for an end to the debate over whether the games are harmful to children.

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Games are never finished until they're finished. We hear this spoken many times over and over again, but Will Wright is sticking it to that mantra and stating that Spore is roughly 6 months away from being be completed. We can hope, but we'll just have to wait and see...

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Bush Getting Impatient With Playing SimCountry

President Bush is facing growing unpopularity with the virtual citizens of his game of SimCountry. Despite repeatedly trying to appease public opinion, the President faces fresh outrage in the face of a series of dramatic road failures in the Simmeapolis-St.

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A happy day for gamers everywhere.

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EA states that Spore will be pushed back to fiscal 09

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Will Wright's Spore may be pushed back to 2009. It is a creature/civilization simulator, the delay will be a disappointment to many.

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During Electronic Arts' financial conference call today, company execs stated that they will not be including the highly anticipated PC game Spore in their 2008 fiscal year plans.

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Neat demos highlight the assorted stages of life beginning with the tiniest organism swimming in a tidepool to life ending with UFO armadas bent on interplanetary war. Lots of cool insight into creature and environment design, too.

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It doesn't take a psychology degree to figure out a few things about Star Wars creator, George Lucas. All it takes is a DVD player and the six Star Wars movies.

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Will Wright (game designer) and Brian Eno (musician) discuss generative systems and their application to game design and music, including that of Spore, Wright's latest project.

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LAS VEGAS--Conceptualizing a complicated game is simple. Just ask Maxis' Will Wright. The mind behind the upcoming PC game Spore has oodles of ideas on how to make a game deep, layered, and complex. However, translating those ideas into actual gameplay is a whole other task.

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EVEN people who do not play video games themselves will probably have noticed that the latest round of the industry's three-way fight—between Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo—is now under way in earnest.

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Spore man and media darling Will Wright will be one of the speakers at next week's DICE Summit in Henderson, Nevada.

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Will Wright, the inventor of the bestselling computer games SimCity and The Sims, is working on a game unlike anything virtual-reality aficionados have seen before -- a simulation of nothing less than the history of life on earth, from the first single-cell organism to space trav …

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